Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] 's just " in BNC.
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| 1 | is Nigel erm and him and his girlfriend he 's just bought erm a maisonette down you know |
| 2 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
| 3 | That section of the road , past the pub she 's just mentioned , was rerouted fifteen years ago . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 've heard of Marius Steen , bloke who 's just died ? ’ |
| 5 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 6 | He did n't know the correct etiquette for replying to a lady who 's just told you her recently-murdered husband was impotent . |
| 7 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a pity it 's just been a year . |
| 9 | Arms and fists raised like a footballer who 's just scored a goal , Austin Currie took his kudos , from the audience of 500 in the packed conference hall of the Slieve Donard Hotel . |
| 10 | Oh who 's that geezer who 's just started who used to paint , can' think of the pop artist , Andy |
| 11 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
| 12 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 13 | I do , according to my best friend who 's just had a baby . |
| 14 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've captured a very gay hairdresser who 's just wet his pants . ’ |
| 16 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |
| 17 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 18 | Like a woman who 's just been well and truly kissed . |
| 19 | That 's the motto of an 82-year-old North Yorkshire woman who 's just been accepted into the Writers Guild . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh God , every day it seems I 'm speaking to a mate who 's just been robbed , ’ said Woody , sometime Cross Key 's barman , in his thick Lancashire accent . |
| 21 | come and watch the news it 's just started |
| 22 | When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . |
| 23 | ‘ A neurotic , ’ he said , ‘ is a man who 's just worked out what 's going on . ’ |
| 24 | says the man who 's just arrived ; |
| 25 | You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’ |
| 26 | The man who 's just won an election usually thinks things have gone from to better and the man who 's lost it thinks they have gone from bad to worse . |
| 27 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 28 | You look like a kid who 's just discovered Father Christmas does n't exist . ’ |
| 29 | A glider pilot who 's just won the right to work as an instructor , teaching others the beauty of unpowered flying . |
| 30 | Yeah I was talking to her and she 's got this ma he 's not a spastic he 's just got such bad taste in music and he just plays it like it 's sort of like |